Verrific!
I saw "V For Vendetta" last night. It's pretty great. I highly recommend the first trailer, from when they thought it would come out last November.
The movie is fairly faithful to the original work, with the some major changes, but I didn't mind, so they must have been doing something right. All in all it hits all the right notes, and is very well directed. Portman is good, Hugo Weaving is great, and even the minor characters are, as in the book, very fully drawn (no pun intended). My only major complaint is that I am just sick to death of slow mo action scenes, particularly fights. Hey, you know what's exciting? When things move fast! You know what isn't exciting? When things move slow. just sayin'.
Most importantly, for all the talk of how gutsy all of this year's Oscar nominees were, and how much courage it took to make this or that film, they all pale in comparison to "V." This movie is objectively pro-terrorist. In these times, in this climate, Wanrer Brothers released a movie that says, in no uncertain terms, "you know what? Sometimes the terrorists are right, and sometimes terrorism is all we have." Now that takes guts. Despite the movie taking place in Britain, and being very British, by the very end I was feeling incredibly proud to be an American. We rebelled, fought for our rights, and terrorised the shit out of the British, and I'm damn proud of it. Go terrorism!
The movie is fairly faithful to the original work, with the some major changes, but I didn't mind, so they must have been doing something right. All in all it hits all the right notes, and is very well directed. Portman is good, Hugo Weaving is great, and even the minor characters are, as in the book, very fully drawn (no pun intended). My only major complaint is that I am just sick to death of slow mo action scenes, particularly fights. Hey, you know what's exciting? When things move fast! You know what isn't exciting? When things move slow. just sayin'.
Most importantly, for all the talk of how gutsy all of this year's Oscar nominees were, and how much courage it took to make this or that film, they all pale in comparison to "V." This movie is objectively pro-terrorist. In these times, in this climate, Wanrer Brothers released a movie that says, in no uncertain terms, "you know what? Sometimes the terrorists are right, and sometimes terrorism is all we have." Now that takes guts. Despite the movie taking place in Britain, and being very British, by the very end I was feeling incredibly proud to be an American. We rebelled, fought for our rights, and terrorised the shit out of the British, and I'm damn proud of it. Go terrorism!
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I am so damn curious about how Americans will react to this movie.
A few people in the theatre clapped, but they were all liberal Hollywood America-hating elitists from the Editors Guild, so there's really no telling what a REAL American will think.
I'll see this, but I can't help but think V's story is rather anarchronistic. A fascist Britain? Riveting stuff in the book and back in the early 80s, but that country is currently on the precipice of multiculturalism run amok, what with a stewing Muslim underclass that's not exactly a friend of freedom, democracy, and all that good stuff.
Plus, V's anti-authority themes aren't exactly helped by the fact that the last time anti-authority terrorists struck in Britain they killed 50-odd civilians in the name of Allah on a subway.
And yet it's also more timely than ever, what with Blair putting restrisctions on free speech and whatnot.
oooohh... complex!
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